Jon,

> One thing that tripped me was the changer file name.  You call it "XXX.conf"
> (eg. changer.conf) but it is listed in amanda.conf as "XXX" without the
> ".conf" extension.  This is different than chg-mtx that I normally use.

Yes, I found that to be the case with chg-dz-mtx, it was pretty
apparent (fortunately) and was correctly described in the config
docs for the script.

My issues with chg-dz-mtx seem to be more timing issues, amtape has
some subcommands that aren't working (update, but I can live without it)
and amlabel works but dumps core (2.4.4, maybe fixed by now).

I don't recall what I had problems with with chg-mtx but its likely
that I simply missed something in the config. It works for others so
its likely something I did or didn't do.


> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:43:08AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> > 
> > I wasn't able to configure chg-mtx with my storedge, I did use
> > chg-zd-mtx with pretty good success.
> > 
> > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 at 5:06pm, Jason Tedesco wrote
> > > 
> > > > This is the part where I am a little confused (I'm no experienced 
> > > > Amanda user but I'm guessing I will be by the end of the week.)
> > > > 
> > > > In amanda.conf I am using
> > > > tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx"
> > > > changerdev "/dev/scsi/changer/c6t0d0"
> > > > 
> > > > I am wondering if changerfile has to be specified as well?  If the 
> > > 
> > > To use chg-zd-mtx, yes.
> > > 
> > > > changerfile is specified, what exactly needs to go into changer.conf?  
> > > 
> > > chg-zd-mtx is just a shell script.  There's a (large) comment block at 
> > > the 
> > > top of the script that walks you through setting up your changer.conf 
> > > file.
> > > 
> > > > Does tpchanger in amanda.conf need the full path name or do you copy 
> > > > the 
> > > > script into the directory?
> > > 
> > > Leave it where 'make install' put it and you don't need the full path in 
> > > amanda.conf.
> > > 
> > > > Should I be using tpchanger "chg-zd-mtx" or tpchanger "chg-mtx"?
> > > 
> > > That's up to you.  ISTR a lot of Solaris folks using chg-scsi as well.  
> > > If 
> > > you got mtx from <http://mtx.badtux.net/> then chg-zd-mtx is the one you 
> > > want.
> > > 
> 
> 
> One thing that tripped me was the changer file name.  You call it "XXX.conf"
> (eg. changer.conf) but it is listed in amanda.conf as "XXX" without the
> ".conf" extension.  This is different than chg-mtx that I normally use.
> 
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